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06-04-2007, 04:29 PM
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Re: Great anonymous interview about being a broke player
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99.99% sure the pro being interviewed is Layne Flack. [/ QUOTE ] Could Layne Flack seriously find midstakes nolimit online tough? im finding this hard to believe. 
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#32
06-04-2007, 04:29 PM
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Re: Great anonymous interview about being a broke player
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[ QUOTE ] Just that his wife left him a few months ago and took the kids. [/ QUOTE ] really? didn't know that. [/ QUOTE ] I meant in the interview (in OP's post) the guy said his wife left him and took the kids. Not that there was an actual divorce (yet). I still think it's Hellmuth even though he's a bit older. Note the golf, craps and baccarat. Wife and kids.
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#34
06-04-2007, 04:31 PM
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Re: Great anonymous interview about being a broke player
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Just that his wife left him a few months ago and took the kids. [/ QUOTE ] really? didn't know that. [/ QUOTE ] I meant in the interview (in OP's post) the guy said his wife left him and took the kids. Not that there was an actual divorce (yet). I still think it's Hellmuth even though he's a bit older. Note the golf, craps and baccarat. Wife and kids. [/ QUOTE ] its not helmuth or the grinder. i think its someone lower profile.
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#35
06-04-2007, 04:33 PM
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Re: Great anonymous interview about being a broke player
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Just that his wife left him a few months ago and took the kids. [/ QUOTE ] really? didn't know that. [/ QUOTE ] I meant in the interview (in OP's post) the guy said his wife left him and took the kids. Not that there was an actual divorce (yet). I still think it's Hellmuth even though he's a bit older. Note the golf, craps and baccarat. Wife and kids. [/ QUOTE ] its not helmuth or the grinder. i think its someone lower profile. [/ QUOTE ] The odds favor your being right. I went back and looked at the winners for all 2006 WSOP events and didn't know more than 1/2 of them. I didn't even bother with WPT events.
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#37
06-04-2007, 04:38 PM
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Re: Great anonymous interview about being a broke player
I thought the main point of the interview was telling: that many high profile live players are busto or near busto and have little chance of recovering. There was another post today in a forum with a reply to the WPT and he mentioned that many players there are busto and need to make more than 12/1 on their buy in (Bellagio championship) that they get for coming in 6th.
We've known for a long time that staking is going on but the extent of it among "name" pros that TV has promulgated as being the "best of the best" is interesting.
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#39
06-04-2007, 04:42 PM
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Re: Great anonymous interview about being a broke player
Can't be Hellmuth since he is absolutely loaded, plus if you read his blog he still has a happy family life. Couldn't be Mizrachi either since he's in his mid 20's. My guess would be Victor Ramdin - he won the Foxwoods Poker Classic in 2006 and appears to fit the profile of a mid 30's family man. If you've seen him on High Stakes Poker then it's easy to see how he could be broke
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#40
06-04-2007, 04:44 PM
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Re: Great anonymous interview about being a broke player
My guess is Joe Bartholdi
From interview "Also, I only had 50% of myself for my win last year, so after the tax man got his cut, I didn't win nearly as much as people would think" From his Wiki: "Cassidy and Bartholdi swapped 50% with each other for the World Poker Tour (WPT) season 4 $25,000 no limit hold 'em championship event. Bartholdi outlasted 604 other players to win the event and claim the $3,760,165 first prize. He also made the final table of the WPT Battle of Champions IV event shortly after." It also talks about how poor is BR management is. The only part that didn't fit was that Joe is only 27 (according to Wiki)
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